Sentence examples for it failed to explode from inspiring English sources

Only one bomb found its mark, but it failed to explode.

Fortunately, it failed to explode.

It failed to explode because the timer had been wrongly set.

They also threw a grenade under the bus, but it failed to explode.

In 1972 he was sent a letter bomb, but it failed to explode because of faulty wiring.

In her confession, she said she walked into the hotel and tried to detonate her belt, but it failed to explode and she fled.

If it fails to explode, be extremely careful when approaching it.

Nezar Hindawi was said to have sent an unnamed Syrian from London to West Berlin to repair the detonation device on the bomb after it twice failed to explode.

Two 454 kg bomb managed to penetrate both armoured decks, all the way down through the double bottom, before coming to rest on the sea floor; it however failed to explode.

Cossacks first 18 inches torpedo struck the anti-torpedo bulge amidships, but failed to explode because it had been fired too close to Glatton.

A 200 kg bomb carried by the plane failed to explode; if it had, the ship might have been effectively destroyed.